Place	Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, England
Date	Tuesday 5th January 1847, 1 a.m.
Railway Company	London & North Western Railway
No. of Fatalities	2
Cause of Accident	Collision
Description	On a foggy night, a train of laden coal wagons stopped at Kings Langley to detach some of the wagons. It was run into from the rear by a double headed luggage train. The driver and fireman of the leading locomotive of the luggage train sounded the whistle and jumped clear, but the driver and fireman of the second locomotive did not hear the warning or were asleep and were killed.

List of Fatalities

The 2 fatalities are listed in the table below together with brief notes of any other information found so far.

The last column shows the General Register Office (England and Wales), Statutory Register (Scotland), General Register Northern Ireland or Civil Registration for Ireland reference where this has been identified.

Surname	First Names	Age	Occupation	Residence	Notes	GRO/SR/GRONI/GROIE Reference
ALSOP	William		Locomotive driver	,	Married
MATHEWS	George		Locomotive fireman	,	Married